Stephen King's The Stand (CBS All Access - 2020) (1 Viewer)

[joshEH]

[Double-Post]

 

[Kevin Hewell]

Sure, it's a TV production with all the limits of a TV production. But I remember it being ambitious, unique and engrossing.

I 100% agree.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Given how risk averse big studio execs tend to be, what's the likelihood this just gets shelved indefinitely... even if they can resume production by year's end? And the actual release?

I'm assuming they haven't actually completed production, especially since there seems no news of that.

Meanwhile, I decided to watch a little of the beginning episode of the old miniseries, and it's not bad IMHO. Certainly no worse than anything else pre-millennium on TV as far as I recall... not that that's high praise or anything of course...

_Man_

 

[joshEH]

Given how risk averse big studio execs tend to be, what's the likelihood this just gets shelved indefinitely... even if they can resume production by year's end? And the actual release?

I'm assuming they haven't actually completed production, especially since there seems no news of that.

Shooting fully wrapped back in early March, right before the world shut down due to COVID, so it's basically in the can -- I'm assuming they're doing modified post-production on the show as we speak, tweaked for social-distancing, etc. Editing, scoring, and the like can pretty much happen with minimal personnel and/or via "long-distance" means, so it will probably be completely finished by the end of the year.

As to whether the "too soon" factor will kick in for the network in terms of broadcast...yeah, I'm wondering about that myself now as well, honestly.

 

[TravisR]

Shooting fully wrapped back in early March, right before the world shut down due to COVID, so it's basically in the can -- I'm assuming they're doing modified post-production on the show as we speak, tweaked for social-distancing, etc. Editing, scoring, and the like can pretty much happen with minimal personnel and/or via "long-distance" means, so it will probably be completely finished by the end of the year.

As to whether the "too soon" factor will kick in for the network in terms of broadcast...yeah, I'm wondering about that myself now as well, honestly.

Since the culture has no attention span any more, I don't think "too soon" is an issue. Plus, The Stand uses the flu as the set up for a story about a post-apocalyptic world. As bad as the real world pandemic has been, it's not going to cause the collapse of society.

Personally, I'm dreading all the inevitable low/no budget pandemic horror movies that will be made in the next year or two. Not because they're exploiting a tragedy (though they are) but because they will all be painfully obvious while thinking they're clever or subtle.

 

[joshEH]

Release date officially announced by CBS -- Dec. 17th:

The Stand TV Adaptation Starring Whoopi Goldberg and Alexander Skarsgård Sets Premiere Date

The CBS All Access limited series is based on Stephen King's bestselling novel of the same name

www.yahoo.com

Also just noticed that a couple of male-character roles from the book have now been gender-swapped in the new CBS series -- "Ralph Brentner" is now "Ray Brentner" (played by Irene Bedard), and "The Ratman" is now "The Ratwoman" (played by Fiona Dourif, who brought an interesting vibe to her role on the Dirk Gently TV series adaptation a couple years back).

...Which, come to think, is something that the 1994 ABC miniseries also did -- the male character "Ray Flowers" from the book (the talk-radio DJ) became "Rae Flowers," and was played by Kathy Bates, so there's some nifty symmetry going on with the whole "Ray"-thing, here.

 

[Jason_V]

Nothing says Merry Christmas like The Stand, I guess.

 

[joshEH]

I can imagine Randall Flagg wearing a Santa-hat. Brings a disturbing smile to my face.

 

[joshEH]

M-O-O-N spells "the first trailer just dropped":

 

[ChristopherG]

M-O-O-N spells "the first trailer just dropped":

Not a Whoopie fan, but this overall looks pretty interesting. I'm sure she will pull off Mother Abigail just fine.

So from that link I found this comparison of characters which held my interest:

 

[joshEH]

...Baby, can you dig a new trailer?

 

[ChristopherG]

Just got an email from CBS all access saying this is available to stream as of now. I think I know what I am doing this evening.

 

[joshEH]

Finishing up Star Trek: Discovery right now, and gonna be firing up The Stand immediately afterwards. Can't freaking wait.

 

[Josh Dial]

Finishing up Star Trek: Discovery right now, and gonna be firing up The Stand immediately afterwards. Can't freaking wait.

That's my order, too. I'll be back in a few hour with my thoughts. Looking forward to reading your review.

 

[WillG]

Are all episodes available? or are new episodes released weekly like Mandolorian

 

[joshEH]

New episodes weekly (also similar to CBS's Star Trek shows).

 

[WillG]

Hmmm do I wait and binge (and knock it out during a trial period) or start watching now?

 

[Johnny Angell]

Hmmm do I wait and binge (and knock it out during a trial period) or start watching now?

I have a wife who has to watch each episode as it comes out. I’d love to do what you’re thinking of. However, CBSAA is expanding it’s offerings. So being a regular subscriber ain’t so bad.

When I wrote this, I was thinking of the Mandalorian. My wife will have no interest in the Stand. I hope this new version is a lot better than the mini-series from long ago. I bought the blu ray and was unable to complete more than one episode.

 

[WillG]

I have a wife who has to watch each episode as it comes out. I’d love to do what you’re thinking of. However, CBSAA is expanding it’s offerings. So being a regular subscriber ain’t so bad.

yeah but I already have too many subscriptions.

 

[Johnny Angell]

yeah but I already have too many subscriptions.

I gotcha. Don’t ya just hate it when you see a trailer for a series or movie you’d like to watch, and it’s with a streamer you don’t subscribe to, and your dance card is already full?